Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — WHEATFIELD ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD ITEMS.

John Whitaker has been on the siek list for a few days. Wm. McNeil has purchased the livery barn property, also the propertv occupied by Heath's barber shop. Quite a number attended a dance at Stoutsburg Saturday night. Emory Smith, of Lowell, Sundayed at S. H, Petrie’s. John Akers is reported quite sick. Mrs. E. W. Phelps was callad to Denham, Ind., Friday. Her son Charley is quite sick at that place. Dan Fairchilds, of DeMotte, was ia town Monday. Mrs. A. Barlow is on the sick list. Mr, Beeman our school teacher drove to Valparaiso last Saturday. . J. W. Tilton has moved in the Bentley property.

P. E. Davis drove; to Rensselaer last Tuesday. Orange Heath fe taking in the street fair at Francesville; this week. Henry Ballard, of Medaryville, drove in town Tuesday. Ed Byers, who went to Tennessee with the Davis boys last spring, came home Tuesday, Charley Jones, a young farmer from over by the river, came in town Tuesday, and loaded up with Wheatfield tanglefoot. Marshal Brown landed him in the cooler, where he laid until evening, when he was before Justice Swisher and given a fine of one dollar and costs, in all $12.70. Sunday night about 12 o’clock the Columbian Hotel near the C. & E. I. Depot, was discovered to be on fire. The fire had gained such headway that it was impossible to save anything The building and all of its contents were destroyed. Some of the boarders barely escaped in their night clothes. The Hotel was run bv the Widow Smith who. . lost all she had. The origin of the fire is unknown.